I am an Associate Professor at Department of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, and a Honorary Senior Fellow at School of Economics, the University of Queensland.

青山学院大学経済学部准教授，クイーンズランド大学名誉シニア・フェロー（Honorary Senior Fellow）

My research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and computational economics.

Contact: ywakiecon@gmail.com

What’s new

• [August 2026] “Generational War on Inflation? Optimal Inflation Rates for the Young and the Old,” with Ippei Fujiwara and Shunsuke Hori is now accepted at Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
• [August 2026] A new draft “Zero liquidity and concentrated redistribution in a New Keynesian model” is uploaded.
• [January 2026] A new draft “Generational War on Inflation? Optimal Inflation Rates for the Young and the Old,” with Ippei Fujiwara and Shunsuke Hori is uploaded.
• [August 2025] A new draft “A Fast and Convergent Hybrid of Value Function Iteration and the Endogenous Grid Method for Discrete-Time Income Fluctuation Problems” is uploaded with the replication files (zip).